The main purpose of the program is to establish a national nanotechnology industry in Taiwan.
Academia Sinica has founded The Taiwan International Graduate Program (TIGP)in cooperation with a consortium of several key research universities in Taiwan. The main business of TIGP is to develop the research manpower pool in those modern multidisciplinary areas that are important in the future economical and social development and to improve the innovative potential and academic standards of research in these and related areas.